Marina

“Life is an unpleasant business. I have resolved to spend it reflecting on it.”
― Joris-Karl Huysmans

“After awhile you could get used to anything.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“The pleasure of travel - existing as it largely does only in recollection and almost never in the present, at the actual moment when it is taking place-
Besides, he considered travel to be pointless, believing that the imagination could easily compensate for the vulgar reality of actual experience.”
― Joris-Karl Huysmans, Against Nature

“Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about. In my prison, when the sky turned red and a new day slipped into my cell, I found out that she was right.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger